Greg McElhatton

Reviewer

Arlington, VA

Indiana, PA

Mar 26

I first discovered the joy of comics in 1980 when some girls on my school bus brought in their father's copies of Wendy and Richard Pini's "Elfquest" and the rest, as they say, is history. Since then, I've written freelance interviews and articles for "Wizard" (going all the way back to the first issue), headed up the Small Press Expo and the Ignatz Awards, served as an Eisner judge and written reviews regularly since 1999 (first for iComics.com, then moving to my own site Read About Comics).

I moved to the Washington DC area in 1974 and have yet to leave. I design and develop training for the Federal government during the day, and I've had both fiction and non-fiction professionally published. In my spare time I train for marathons and triathlons. I've promised my friends one of these days I'll run a race dressed as the Flash.

Wed, July 29th, 2015 | Category: Review

"Sex Criminals" #11 kicks off the series' third volume with a reminder of just what it is that Suzie and Jon are up to, and Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky pay a brief homage to David Caruso's reign on "CSI: Miami." No, really

Wed, July 29th, 2015 | Category: Review

"Lobster Johnson: A Chain Forged in Life" lets Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, Troy Nixey and Kevin Nowlan bring us to a story of crime and kidnapping with a Christmas theme, just in time for an end of July release.

Mon, July 27th, 2015 | Category: Review

Mon, July 27th, 2015 | Category: Review

"Justice League 3001" #2 has both the strengths and weaknesses of this series on display, as Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis and Howard Porter continue to add in new characters while neglecting existing ones.

Thu, July 23rd, 2015 | Category: Review

Mon, July 20th, 2015 | Category: Review

Zack Keller, Nick Keller and Joanna Estep's "Death Head" #1 has a genuinely spooky moment or two but, judged solely on this first issue, comes across a little too disjointed to hold one's interest for long.

Mon, July 20th, 2015 | Category: Review

"Martian Manhunter" #2 has a deliberately odd and disjointed voice to its story and, while that can't work for too long without some answers, Rob Williams, Eddy Barrows and Eber Ferreira keep readers jumping for now.

Mon, July 20th, 2015 | Category: Review

"Green Lantern: The Lost Army" #2 continues the wandering of the lost Green Lanterns, but Cullen Bunn and Jesus Saiz's story is less the fresh start it initially seemed and instead tightly bound to other "Green Lantern" comics.

Mon, July 20th, 2015 | Category: Review

Fri, July 17th, 2015 | Category: Review

"Darkseid War" heats up in "Justice League" #42, as Geoff Johns and Jason Fabok continue to show the different sides assembling. Unfortunately for Earth, there are no good guys -- and guess who's trapped in the middle?

Fri, July 17th, 2015 | Category: Review

"Captain Britain and the Mighty Defenders" #1 has a nice enough premise as another utopia is invaded by a surrounding hell-on-earth, but the two-issue length does Al Ewing, Alan Davis and Mark Farmer no favors.

Mon, July 13th, 2015 | Category: Review

"Injection" #3 continues to bring the strange even as it ducks around providing any solid answers, but Warren Ellis and Declan Shalvey's comic might have hidden just enough clues to start figuring out a central mystery.

Mon, July 13th, 2015 | Category: Review

"Justice League of America" #2 looks spectacular thanks to Bryan Hitch's pencils, but his story of the Kryptonian god Rao coming to Earth slows to a crawl for a montage of the scenes readers probably saw coming.

Wed, July 8th, 2015 | Category: Review

Becky Cloonan, Brenden Fletcher and Karl Kerschl bring Olive back to school in "Gotham Academy" #8, and what better way for her to be distracted from a death in the family than with romance and a Man-Bat?